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May 29

Boulder-based Boomtown goes virtual with help from Shark Tank star – Longmont Times-Call

BOULDER From Anthony Franco and mcSquares to Dustin Finkel and Ka-Pop! Snacks, ABCs Shark Tank has teamed with companies with Colorado connections for years. The Colorado-Shark Tank connection got even stronger Thursday evening when television investor and The Corcoran Group founder Barbara Corcoran played host to Boulder-based startup accelerator Boomtowns virtual demo day.

Its great not being a shark here judging today; instead were here celebrating these companies and entrepreneurs, Corcoran said, calling Boulder a startup hotspot.

The demo day, Boomtowns 13th and typically held live at the Boulder Theater, featured videos from the founders of a dozen startups pitching their firms to investors and receiving feedback from judges. The judges were Scott Caruso, director of strategic ventures with CableLabs; Margot Drees, former Global Healthcare Exchange LLC vice president of global marketing; Thriv3 LLC president Sarah Irizarry; and leadership coach Dan Willis.

For the first three weeks of the accelerator program, founders met in person in Boulder. But when the COVID-19 outbreak began spreading, Boomtown went virtual.

Its always hard to start a company, but doing it in the context of a pandemic is even harder, Willis said.

The cohort members, described below using language provided by Boomtown, were:

Entrepreneurs today must know how to lead in a crisis, Boomtown CEO Toby Krout said. Innovative thinking must empower humanity and our startups have risen to the challenge. The experience they gained over these past few months included powerful, valuable lessons that will serve them for the rest of their careers.

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